White House said it stands by Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has faced renewed attacks this week from conservatives over the extent to which the U.S. biomedical establishment funded potentially dangerous research into bat coronaviruses in Chinese laboratories.
that the coronavirus is a Chinese “bioweapon.” Baseless as such accusations are, they have continued to thrive, as researchers across the world put pressure on China to be more forthright about how the pandemic began.
Addressing the matter on Thursday in the White House briefing room, Psaki not only defended Fauci but the institutions highlighted in the documents obtained by the Intercept. “NIH has never approved any research that would make a coronavirus more dangerous to humans,” she said, adding that there were many coronavirus strains other than the one that has infected 219 million people around the world., ordered by President Biden, yielded no new insights into how the coronavirus originated.
Chinese authorities have steadfastly refused to take any responsibility for the coronavirus, which many believe originated in a market where exotic animals were sold. They have gone as far as to suggest falsely that the pathogen originated atResearchers at work in the Biosafety Level 4 laboratory at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick in 2002.
In 2020, Fauci’s standing was often called into question, after he emerged as the chief messenger for the Trump administration on the pandemic in the spring. He often appeared to infuriate a president not known to cede the limelight. Although the relationship between Trump and Fauci deteriorated in the second half of 2020, Trump resisted the calls of his supporters to fire Fauci, although he did silence and marginalize him.
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